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Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, one of President Clinton's closest friends and the highest-ranking official to have been toppled by the Whitewater investigation, was sentenced to 21 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty last December to mail-fraud and tax-evasion charges for having bilked his former law firm and clients by submitting inflated expenses and fees...
...bottom, the committee will necessarily be asking whether a Harvard Medial School Professor ought to be lending his credibility to stories of space alien abductions. It is extremely unusual for great universities to second-guess the research or publications of their tenured faculty, except for allegations of fraud, plagiarism or violations of patients' or students' rights. For example, New York City College has never formally investigated in "research" and claims of Professor Leonard Jeffries that "melanin" has an influence on racial characteristics and makes blacks better than whites, or of a white professor who has argued that blacks have lower...
...speech sent his own party into convulsions, with some congressional Democrats privately calling him a turncoat and vilifying Morris as a kind of serpent whispering evil in the President's ear. Republicans, having grudgingly praised Clinton at first, were suggesting within a few days that he was a fraud. Their evidence: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that Clinton's 10-year plan to balance the budget would instead produce a $209 billion deficit by 2005. The White House played down the gap as a simple disagreement over economic forecasts...
...While offering to cut most discretionary spending programs by 20 percent, the President saidhe would not cut education or health services for the elderly. Other priorities:give tax cuts only to the middle class, not to upper-income Americans, protect services for poor children while cutting welfare, and target fraud and waste in federal programs to achieve savings. In an equally terse response for the GOP, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said that while he was encouraged by the President's newfound willingness to work with Congress to eliminate the deficit, he strongly disagreed with Clinton's determined effort...
...candidates endorsed by the alliance--Vice Mayor Sheila T. Russell, Michael A. Sullivan and Timothy J. Toomey, Jr.--won council seats. A fourth candidate endorsed by the Alliance, Anthony D. Galluccio, was appointed to the council last December to replace William H. Walsh, who was sentenced on federal bank fraud charges...